nemtaro

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by nemtaro 8y ago
I'm also surprised that many supposedly educated people on HackerNews don't seem to know these things. Noam Chomsky wrote Manufacturing Consent decades ago. Read, you fools!
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by nemtaro 9y ago
Bullshit. Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions are racists, and their decision to put the lives of 800,000 people at risk is indeed racist. You can call it "immigration policy" if it makes you feel better.
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by nemtaro 10y ago
Have you been asleep this past week? The courts already ruled to put a stop to this executive order. Who do you think is supposed to enforce the ruling of the courts?
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by nemtaro 10y ago
I'm afraid that is likely an underestimated number of affected people/lives because it does not include the number of people with valid, legal visas who are refused boarding by airlines across the world. Those people never make it
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by nemtaro 10y ago
About time for more people to stand up to Trump and his idiotic executive orders.
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by nemtaro 10y ago
The YCs and large companies can easily move their investments and offices to Canada and hire the world's best and brightest there. I'll give you the often conservative advice: Tough luck? pull yourself up by your own boot straps!
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by nemtaro 10y ago
Perhaps this explains why: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-joint-res... http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperit...
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Apple has allegedly begun removing Iranian iOS apps from the App store(techcrunch.com)
82 points by nemtaro 10y ago|23 comments
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by nemtaro 10y ago
>> The intent of the H1-B visa law is clear: It is meant only for STEM workers when there is no American to fill the role. ___That's it. Period.___ Are you Sean Spicer? ;)
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by nemtaro 10y ago
I'm sure he did say that ;) but consider that he was not entirely truthful. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10065243
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by nemtaro 11y ago
I appreciate your reply, and it's certainly true that not all teams or managers are bad at Amazon. I'd suggest that you're on a lucky on-call rotation, and seem to have a good manager! If I were still there, I'd say get
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by nemtaro 11y ago
So, let's see... 1. You check your email aggressively during your time off. 2. You think that 50 hours a week is normal. 3. You think 1/8 weeks of _unpaid_ on-call is reasonable. How many sev-2s and sev-3s do you get during your o
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by nemtaro 11y ago
Read cracking the coding interview and solve every single problem in it. Then start with the leetcode.com problems and solve every single one. Hen do 5 practice interviews with companies that you don't care about. That's all. It&#
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by nemtaro 11y ago
That's a very good question! I should have left after 3 years. I did not know any better. Specially when it came to compensation, I only knew about my promised stocks' grown value, and not what other companies would have offered
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by nemtaro 11y ago
All of the friends whom I helped, and myself included have transferred from Amazon to Facebook/Google/Apple located in Seattle. I went from ~$150 total comp to ~$260 after a couple of rounds of negotiations with the companies who
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by nemtaro 11y ago
If you've been at Amazon for 11 years, your stock has grown from $40 to $500. I can see why you stick around in addition to the other positives that you mentioned... I've been at Google for a few years now in Seattle, and know of
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by nemtaro 11y ago
Amazon does _not_ pay as well as Google/FB/Apple/Twitter/Netflix/LinkedIn/Salesforce/etc.
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by nemtaro 11y ago
I'm so glad that this is getting more visibility. I spent 5 long years at Amazon Web Services from 2008 - 2013 as a Software Development Engineer, and was at some point promoted to SDE II ;) It's a shark eat shark environment. I n
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by nemtaro 12y ago
Thanks for clarifying this.
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by nemtaro 12y ago
As someone who actually worked at Amazon for a few long years, I'm always skeptical of such seemingly positive news, and often think "hmm, could this be another marketing trick to influence people's perception of Amazon rathe
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by nemtaro 13y ago
BRAVO! I was just going to say the same thing... My interest in Google+ is the same interest I had in facebook years ago: some site I upload and share my personal photos with people I choose. Now, I see that: 1. my photos upload automatical
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by nemtaro 13y ago
Don't you have to use the "iTunes store" to install apps on iDevices remotely? Also, as an example use case, how else do you put music on your iDevices? I'm under the impression that you have to use iTunes.
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by nemtaro 13y ago
I'm not convinced. While most people might have spent enough money on their iOS apps to feel this way, I doubt that buying the same apps (if their free alternatives don't exist) on Android would rack up more than a few tens of dol